Judges & Police - Brokers of Justice ?

Read
the actual case details at
following web pages involving judges & police in crimes. The criminal
network , corruption net work , MAFIA of Judges & Police is strong ,
whenever one of their members is
accussed , others white wash , bury the case in the name of
investigation. Transparent , impartial investigation as in the case of common
man is not at all done.

We respect the honest few in judiciary ,
police & public service. Those honest few are also becoming parties to
crime by becoming silent , by not doing their duties , by not arresting their
corrupt colleagues. Their by they are covering up crime & aiding criminals
to commit more crimes.

Due to these type of corrupt judges &
police innocents, commoners land in
jails and some are even hanged for
crimes not commited by them , while the rich crooks roams free.

Noting that Dawood and Lashkar-e-Taiba chief Hafiz Saeed were
protected by Pakistani forces, Singh said a secret operation must be carried
out in the manner the United States did to kill terrorists Osama bin Laden and
Mullah Omar.

India
had planned a covert operation to take down underworld don Dawood Ibrahim, but
the operation was compromised by some Mumbai Police officials. These are the
explosive revelations made by former Home Secretary and now BJP leader RK Singh
in an interview to Seedhi Baat on Aaj Tak.

RK
Singh revealed details of how corrupt elements of the Mumbai Police foiled a
secret operation to take down Dawood. The operation was launched when Atal
Bihari Vajpayee was the prime minister and current NSA Ajit Doval was at the
IB. Indian government had roped in some elements from the Chota Rajan gang and
they were being trained at a secret location outside Maharashtra. But Mumbai
Police officials who were in touch with D-company landed up at the training
camp with arrest warrants for the covert operatives who had been engaged by
India. The entire operation to take down Dawood failed due to these rogue
elements in Mumbai police. This is the first time that there is confirmation of
a botched covert operation to take down Dawood by someone who has held a
position of authority.

Noting
that Dawood and Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) chief Hafiz Saeed were protected by
Pakistani forces, Singh said a secret operation must be carried out in the
manner the United States did to kill terrorists Osama bin Laden and Mullah
Omar. He added that Pakistan will never admit that Dawood is in Pakistan.
Similarly, it will shamelessly deny the presence of other terrorists despite
funding and training these terror groups on its soil. "India must repeat
the Myanmar operation in Pakistan," he maintained. He added if one
operation fails, the government shouldn't be disheartened but launch another
operation right away.

Singh
said Modi's advisors are not giving him the right advice on this issue.
"Nothing will be achieved by handing over dossiers to Pakistan. It is
globally recognised as a snake pit. We can't depend on the US to fight India's
battles. India has to fight its own enemies," Singh added.

Singh
also said the neighbouring country needs to be wise and avert a possible war by
not shielding a terrorist. "Pakistan has to calculate the cost of a war. I
don't think Pakistan is such a big fool that it would engage in a war with
India," he said. "If America sees any threat from Pakistan, it will
act. Similarly, Israel can kill its enemies. We need to develop this
mentality," he added. The retired bureaucrat revealed that
specially-trained private security men comprising mostly ex-army men protect
Dawood in Pakistan under the supervision of the ISI. Singh exuded confidence
that Modi's visit to the UAE would yield desirable results. He did acknowledge
though that Dawood still has significant influence in Dubai.

Coming
down heavily on Pakistan, Singh said India must stop dialogue with its neighbor
and instead deal with the situation in a strategic manner. "India must hit
back in a way that hurts Pakistan the most," he said while suggesting that
the dialogue process only helps Pakistan restore credibility which it has lost
all over the world. "Pakistan believes in a constant war with India. We have
the capability to hit back hard. Any dialogue with Pakistan is futile. For a
discredited country like Pakistan, dialogue process is an opportunity to regain
its credibility and strike parity with India," Singh said. He said the
elected government in the neighbouring country had no control over its military
force and the ISI.

Singh
lauded the central government's firm stand on separatists in Kashmir. He said
the Pakistani government was using separatists to claim in international
platform that it has the support of a section of people in Jammu and Kashmir.
The Indian government has done the right thing by not talking to separatists,
he said.

An IPS officer who retired in 2010 is said to be the major beneficiary of the
single-digit lottery racket that was unearthed recently. If sources are to be
believed then it is this retired officer who had held several positions in the
Bengaluru City Police Commissionerate, who introduced the kingpin of the
lottery racket, Pari Rajan, to fellow IPS officer Alok Kumar.

The investigation carried
out by the CID has indicated that the retired IPS officer was one of the
biggest beneficiaries in the scam and his name figured in the list of 12
serving/ retired IPS officers whom the CID intended to summon for interrogation,
the sources said.

Alok Kumar, too, is said have disclosed the name of the officer, when he was
grilled by the CID on Sunday.

There are also reports
that Rajan, a native of KGF was into hawala transactions and this was a major
reason why many officers had links with him.

The suspicion is that
Rajan used his contacts with the police top brass to ensure a safe hawala
transaction. Hawala operators considered Bengaluru as a safe transit point and
it had a well-oiled network.

With the CBI probe being
ordered, there are possibilities of various aspects relating to lottery scam
and hawala business to come out.

The Excise and Lottery
Enforcement Cell was set up immediately after the ban on the lottery business
in 2007.

For the first two years,
the cell had no station or power to arrest. One of the senior officers, who was
in the Enforcement Cell between 2007 and 2010, said that until 2011 there
wasn’t much illegal lottery business reported from across the State.

“Matka and single-number
lottery were very much in existence, but they used to be handled by the
respective district police. As far as lottery was concerned, there was no case
registered at least till 2009-10,” an official said.

Two More Senior Cops Involved In Racket, Says Kumaraswamy

with Pari Rajan. The
police have recently arrested Rajan in connection with the scam. Arun
Chakravarthy, who was IGP, Lottery Squad, prior to Agrawal, had also taken
bribe, he charged. According to Kumaraswamy, 30 to 40 senior police officers,
including many IPS officers, are involved in the scam. Despite a TV channel
conducting a sting operation in March this year, the government took no action
for two months. During this period, the ruling party MLC took Pari Rajan and
Matrin to the son of the influential person to strike a deal. When Martin and
Rajan refused to pay Rs 100 crore, the scam gradually came out in the open, he
said. Paying hafta The JD(S) leader said suspended police officer Dharanesh
(who was then Superintendent of Police, Lottery Squad, southern range) and Pari
Rajan had been paying hafta (bribe) to a minister in the Siddaramaiah ministry.
Dharanesh was recently suspended in connection with the lottery scam. The
officer wanted to continue in the post. The then Superintendent of Police, Lottery
Squad, northern range, Chandrakanth was trying to get the post held by
Dharanesh, he said. "The chief minister and Home Minister K J George
should now disclose the name of the minister who was collecting the hafta. He
should tell why Pari Rajan was not arrested all these days." Simmering
differences He said the scam emerged due to the simmering differences among the
police officers in sharing the bribe money paid by the mafia. Two cases filed
initially in KGF in connection with the illegal lottery sale were fake and they
were only meant to cover up the scam, he added. Later speaking to the media
after the chief minister's decision to refer the scam to the CBI, Kumaraswamy
said the government should get ready to face more embarrassment. However, he
welcomed the decision to refer the racket to the CBI. Scam chronicle, according
to HDK A constable in Kolar, Manjunath, was regularly taking bribe from Pari
Rajan during June or July 2014. Rajan stopped giving him money after he
developed contacts among higher-ups. Manjunath informs about illegal activities
of Rajan to Singh, a head constable with anti-lottery squad. Singh, brings the
matter to the notice of Ramappa Guttedar, the inspector of the squad. When
questioned, Rajan he offers big money as bribe. Then he takes these policemen
to Chennai where they meet one Martin, one of the key operators. Martin gives
Rs 40 lakh as bribe and the three policemen sincerely inform about it to
lottery squad SP Dharanesh and IGP Arun Chakravarthy. All the policemen share
the money: Manjunath and Singh get Rs two lakh each, Ramappa gets Rs five lakh
and the rest was shared by Dharanesh and Chakravarthy. Upset with the small
share they got, Manjunath and Singh inform about the illegality to northern
range SP Chandrakanth. Chandrakanth tries to get the post held by Dharanesh but
fails. He then helps a TV news channel to conduct a sting operation. Six cases
referred to CBI by Siddaramaiah government Misappropriation of over Rs nine
crore by the officials of Ramanagaram-Channapatna Urban Development Authority
with the support of bank officials in 2013. Misuse of over Rs five crore by the
officials of Mandya Urban Development n Authority with the help of banks in
2013. Officers of many nationalised banks were said to be involved in the irregularity.
Rape and murder of Sowjanya, a 17-year-old pre-university course student of
SDM College, Ujire in Dakshina Kannada, on October 9, 2012. The theft of 12
historic idols from Siddhanta Darshan Block of a Jain Basadi at Moodbidri in
September 2013. Death of IAS officer D K Ravi in April, 2015. Single-digit
lottery scam. H D Kumaraswamy, JD(S) leader: The chief minister and Home
Minister K J George should now disclose the name of the minister who was
collecting the hafta. He should tell why Pari Rajan was not arrested all these
days.

DGP son has links with
Lokayukta scam accused kin

State police chief
Omprakash’s son, Karthikesh Omprakash, has business relations with the kin of N
Narasimha Murthy, a clerk at the State police headquarters, who has been
arrested by the SIT probing the Lokayukta corruption scam.

Documents available with the Deccan Herald show
that Murthy's brother-in-law Ashwath and Karthikesh are partners in a quarrying
and crusher unit in Ramanagara. Incidentally, a complaint by the villagers of
Hanchikuppe in Ramanagara district against this quarrying firm for violation of
rules is still pending before the Upalokayukta.

The application for quarrying and stone crushing
unit was filed in the name of Karthikesh in 2009. The Mining Licence (Number
1354 and 1353) was issued in favour of the firm Magadi Quarry and Crusher,
owned by Karthikesh and Ashwath. Around five acres of gomala land at
Hanchikuppe was allotted to the firm.

When villagers objected to the quarrying unit
within the prescribed safe zone, a proceeding by the Ramanagara Deputy
Commissioner held on March 1, 2013 relaxed certain conditions. The area was
declared as safe zone. The same day, based on the recommendation of the DC,
Karnataka State Pollution Control Board accorded certification for the safe
zone. The decision was so fast that both the offices passed orders in favour of
a quarry owner in just one day, the documents reveal. Despite this, the
Tahshildar had submitted a report that the unit fell within 500 metres of residential
area, which is not permissable under Karnataka Regulation of Stone Crushers
Act, 2011.

The Hanchikuppe villagers had also filed a PIL in
the High Court. The court dismissed the petition on the grounds that since the
villagers are the concerned parties a PIL cannot be entertained. The villagers
also filed a complaint before the Upalokayukta (Compt/Uplok/BD/459/2011) and
the next date of hearing is September 23, 2015.

On the day Omprakash took charge as DG&IGP,
Loksatta Party had complained to Chief Minister Siddaramaiah that he had prima
facie misused his position to get clearances for the unit owned by his son.

When contacted, Omprakash said that it was a
personal business issue of his son. Asked if he is aware of his son's business
partnership with the brother-in-law of a clerk in his office, the DG&IGP
answered in the negative.

“You have to ask this question to my son. He may
have a business relationship with a private person. Moreover, if it is illegal,
let the law take its own course,'' he said.

Karnataka Lokayukta Bhaskar Rao’s son held
in ‘extortion’ racket

The arrest of Ashwin Rao was made in Hyderabad, as the SIT, formed
to probe the alleged racket that has also led to clamour for the resignation of
Bhaskar Rao, intensified the investigation

A
special investigation team (SIT) of Karnataka police, which is probing an
extortion racket in the state Lokayukta, Monday arrested Ashwin Rao, son of
Lokayukta Justice Y Bhaskar Rao and the prime accused in the case.

Ashwin was arrested from Kukatpally near Hyderabad.

“On Monday morning, we picked up Ashwin from his residence,”a
senior SIT official said. An advocate for Ashwin, who moved an anticipatory
bail plea in a special Lokayukta court after his client was detained, was
informed in court by the SIT investigating officer Labhu Ram about the arrest.

Ashwin
is prime accused in an extortion case filed by a government executive engineer,
M N Krishnamurthy, who has alleged that Ashwin demanded a Rs 1 crore bribe from
him to prevent initiation of corruption proceedings against him.

The SIT, however, informed the special court Monday that Ashwin
had not been arrested in connection with Krishnamurthy’s complaint, but in a
fresh extortion complaint against him by P B Channabasappa, a government
executive engineer involved with the Upper Tunga irrigation project in Haveri
district.

“It is not clear how the arrest could have happened in the
second FIR because the SIT was in Hyderabad early on Monday and the second FIR
was filed around 10.30 am. The anticipatory bail plea in the Krishnamurthy case
is still valid if the arrest is in the second case. The SIT has been asked to
file objections to the anticipatory bail plea,” Ashwin’s advocate Sandeep Patil
said.

SIT sources indicated that Ashwin would be placed under arrest
in the Krishnamurthy case as well after he is brought to Bengaluru Tuesday.

The SIT has so far arrested five people in connection with the
case.

The alleged racket had multiple layers, with one group filing
RTIs to identify allegedly corrupt persons as targets, a second group calling
up officials and summoning them to the Lokayukta offices, and a third group
allegedly demanding money to prevent initiation of cases against them.

On Sunday, the SIT had arrested the public relations officer in
the Lokayukta, Syed Riyazatullah, a police officer of the rank of joint
commissioner, on charges of extortion and cheating.

Riyazatullah was produced in court Monday and remanded in SIT
custody till August 5. The court overruled his bail plea, saying there was need
for effective investigation in the case.

Ashwin Rao alias Yerabati Ashwin has been
arrested by a SIT in connection with an attempt to extort money from a
government official in the Lokayukta.

The SIT in its
objections has stated that Ashwin Rao “misused the premises and office of the
Lokayukta and meeting hall adjacent to the chambers of PRO of Lokayukta” as
part of the alleged extortion conspiracy.

The
Special Investigation Team (SIT) which arrested Karnataka Lokayukta Justice Y
Bhaskar Rao’s son Ashwin Rao in an extortion case stated on Monday that he is a
prominent member of a larger conspiracy.

Ashwin Rao alias Yerabati Ashwin has been arrested by a SIT in
connection with an attempt to extort money from a government official in the
Lokayukta. The SIT objected to an anticipatory bail plea filed by Ashwin Rao to
pre-empt his arrest in a second extortion case.

The
SIT in its objections has stated that Ashwin Rao “misused the premises and
office of the Lokayukta and meeting hall adjacent to the chambers of PRO of
Lokayukta” as part of the alleged extortion conspiracy. The call detail records
obtained during investigations “clearly establishes” that Rao was in constant
touch with three other key accused in the extortion racket – middlemen V
Bhaskar and Ashok Kumar and Lokayukta PRO Syed Riyazathullah, the SIT has
stated.

According to the SIT, though Ashwin Rao has been arrested only
in connection with an extortion attempt on one government official, his arrest
in a second case is likely at any time. “Considering the fact that petitioner
is the son of the Hon’ble Lokayukta and he is in a position to wield influence
on the prosecution witnesses he in not entitled to anticipatory bail,” the SIT
has argued. The SIT has also claimed to have unearthed incriminating material
against Ashwin Rao in the course of a search of his house in Hyderabad.

While a case was initially registered against Ashwin Rao and
others for summoning Bengaluru Urban district executive engineer M N
Krishnamurthy to the Lokayukta office on May 4, 2015 to place a demand for a
bribe of Rs one crore to prevent initiation of Lokayukta corruption proceedings
the son of the Lokayukta was eventually arrested by the SIT in connection with
another case registered on the basis of a complaint by an irrigation department
engineer PB Channabasappa who alleged that Ashwin Rao and others demanded Rs 20
lakh to make a Lokayukta corruption case go away.

The SIT has in other statements of objection to bail
applications said that cell tower analysis had revealed that three of the
middlemen, including realtor Ashok Kumar who allegedly made the telephone call
summoning executive engineer Krishnamurthy to the Lokayukta office were
together on May 4 when the government official was called to the Lokayukta’s
office. The trio of middlemen were also frequently in touch with the Lokayukta
PRO and Justice Bhaskar Rao’s son Ashwin Rao, the SIT has stated.

The SIT also informed the special Lokayukta court that middlemen
Ashok Kumar and Shankare Gowda, and Lokakyukta PRO Riyazathullah had destroyed
crucial evidence including some SIM cards and mobile handsets used in the conspiracy.

Gali Reddy cash-for-bail scam nets two more Andhra
judges

More
skeletons are tumbling out of the closet in the cash-forbail scam involving
former Karnataka minister Gali Janardhan Reddy.

On
Thursday, the anti-corruption bureau (ACB) arrested two more judges who
allegedly made parallel attempts to secure bail for the mining baron in the
Obulapuram Mining Company's illegal mining case.

The
two judges - D. Prabhakar Rao, a family court judge in Srikakulam and K.
Lakshminarasimha Rao, the chief judge of the city small causes court, were
taken into custody by the agency from their respective residences in Hyderabad.

While
Prabhakar Rao was suspended by the Andhra Pradesh High Court on July 6,
Lakshminarasimha Rao was suspended late on Wednesday, after the ACB probe
unearthed his role in the scam.

The
ACB authorities are questioning him. The ACB had already arrested suspended CBI
special court judge Talluri Pattabhirama Rao, who had allegedly received a
bribe for granting bail to the former Karnataka minister on May 11.

Retired
judge T.V. Chalapathi Rao, who mediated in the cash-for-bail deal, has also
been arrested. Pattabhi's son Ravichandra, rowdy sheeter-turned-realtor P.
Yadagiri Rao and realtor Ravi Suryaprakash Babu were arrested and remanded in
judicial custody.

According
to the ACB sources, the former Karnataka minister and mining baron had
approached Pattabhi through two different routes: one involving Chalapathi Rao
and Yadagiri; and the other through Lakshminarasimha Rao and Prabhakar Rao.

While
Yadagiri offered Rs5 crore to Pattabhi, Prabhakar offered to strike the deal
for Rs10 crore. However, Pattabhi preferred Yadagiri's offer because it was a
safer deal as Chalapathi happened to be his friend.

Janardhan
Reddy was arrested on September 5, 2011, by the CBI. He is accused of being
involved in the illegal mining and export of iron ore in Bellary and Anantapur.

Rs
100cr offered for Gali Janardhan Reddy’s bail: Arrested judge

More
skeletons are tumbling out in the murky cash-for-bail scam involving mining
baron and former Karnataka minister Gali Janardhan Reddy as a lower court
judge, arrested in the case, disclosed to the ACB that Gali's men were ready to
offer as much as a staggering Rs 100 crore to secure bail for him. Earlier, the
deal amount was put at Rs 15 crore.

T Lakshminarasimha Rao, the arrested judge,
disclosed that Dasaradharami Reddy, a relative of Gali, had made the Rs 100 crore
offer, according to the confession statement recorded by the ACB. Krishna
Prasad, an auditor, who is known to him and another relative M Venkateswara Rao
approached Lakshminarasimha Rao in the second week of April with a request to
look for a `channel' to influence the CBI judge for Gali's release on bail.
"They were in touch with Dasaradharami Reddy who was willing to pay even
Rs 100 crore for securing the bail," the confession statement of Rao said.
Though the deal initially came as a shock to the arrested judge, who at the
time was registrar (enquiries), high court, he was later attracted towards the
deal, it said.

Lakshminarasimha Rao called the CBI court judge B
Nagamaruti Sarma to his residence on April 18 and tried to convince him on
granting of bail to Gali. Sarma did not agree for the deal and went away
rejecting the offer. He had, in fact, dismissed the bail plea. Then another
person Raavi Surya Prakash Babu, a real estate dealer, who was taken to Bellary
MLA Sriramulu by his associate Kolli Lakshmaiah Chowdary for striking the deal,
approached Rao again. Surya Prakash had already met Sriramulu's nephew and
Kampli MLA T H Suresh Babu who, too, was trying to secure bail for Gali and
advised him to wait as Nagamaruti Sarma was not of 'their type'. But he
requested Lakshminarasimha Rao to keep the `channel' open as the deal was
"too lucrative to be ignored".

Later, in a strange sequence of events, Nagamaruti
Sarma was shifted out of CBI court and a fresh bail plea was filed which came
before another special judge T Pattabhirama Rao. Lakshminarasimha Rao roped in
Pattabhi's batchmate D Prabhakar Rao, another district judge, who was with the
state election commission as its secretary (legal). He also tried to push the
deal but failed as Pattabhi told him that he would decide the matter on only
`merit'. It turned out later that Pattabhi chose a 'route' planned by his
friend Chalapati though the deal was only for Rs 5 crore. This was mainly
because his friend did not put any precondition that he should meet Gali
Somasekhara Reddy, brother of Gali Janardhana Reddy, before giving bail as was
done by Prabhakar Rao, who was also arrested in the case. Prabhakar in his
confession spoke of only Rs 15 core implying that he too was unaware of the
whopping Rs 100-crore deal. While the ACB arrested Lakshminarasimha Rao on July
12, Pattabhi was arrested last month.

Interestingly, the ACB sleuths seized some cheques
bearing the names of Lakshminarasimha Rao's family members with some complaint
letters written by advocates against some AP high court judges. The letters
were addressed to the President of India.

Cash-for-bail scam: CBI
Judge Pattabhi Rama Rao arrested

In a case of corruption
seeping into the lawmakers psyche, the Andhra Pradesh anti-Corruption bureau
arrested Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) judge Justice Pattabhi Rama Rao
in the cash-for-bail scam. He was suspended after the allegations surfaced that
he accepted a bribe of Rs 6 crore to grant bail to mining baron Janardhana
Reddy in the illegal mining case. Raids were earlier carried out in Rao's
residence and the arrest is the third in the case. Rao was hearing the case
related to the Obulapuram Mining Company (OMC) scam. Retired district judge T V
Chalapathi Rao and Pattabhirama Rao's son Ravichandra was also questioned by
ACB sleuths. Pattabhirama and Chalapathi were classmates at A C College of Law
in Guntur and the latter allegedly brokered the multi-crore bribe. On a tip off
that a deal has been struck between Reddy and the judge, the CBI had earlier
recovered a cash of nearly Rs 1.80 crore from a bank locker here, the keys of
which were allegedly in Ravichandra's possession.

300
Delhi lower-court judges under probe in laptop scam

Nearly
300 Delhi lower-court judges are under the scanner of the high court for
alleged financial irregularities in purchase of computers and laptops from
funds provided by the Delhi government and Delhi high court in 2013.

A high-level panel comprising three HC judges has
been set up by chief justice of Delhi high court Justice G Rohini to look into
how the money was spent by each of these judges. The panel will scrutinize
documents submitted by the judges on purchase of these items.

Under the scheme, each judge was sanctioned Rs 1.1
lakh for upgrading their computer infrastructure. The idea was to give the
judges the freedom to opt for computers, laptops or iPads so that their
efficiency in disposal of cases improves.

Sources
told TOI that the probe panel has issued memos to judicial officers under the
scanner, asking for detailed explanation on the manner in which they spent the
money.

"All judges were initially under probe but
the panel has now zeroed in on roughly 300 officers against whom preliminary
discrepancies have been found. The focus is on correctness of the utilization
certificate given by them to HC relating to the purchases," said an
authoritative source.

"It
has emerged some may have bought TVs or home theatre systems out of the
sanctioned sum instead of computers," the source added.

The irregularities came to light during a routine
vigilance inquiry conducted by court officials. When the evidence was shown to
the chief justice and other senior judges including the computer committee, it
set alarm bells ringing.

Taking a serious view of alleged financial
misdemeanours by city court judges, Justice G Rohini set up a panel comprising
justices Vipin Sanghi, Rajiv Shakdher and VK Rao to conduct a swift but wide
ranging inquiry.

In response to the memos issued by the panel,
sources said, many judges have sent detailed replies with annexures explaining
what was purchased and even showing debit/credit details from their official
bank accounts that tally with the date of purchase. Details of vendors have
also been provided which is being checked individually.

"Since
there was no specification of how much money is to be used for maintenance of
the new equipment, the panel is likely to give a leeway of Rs 10,000-15,000
that may have been kept reserved for annual maintenance charges by a judge. But
beyond that, the charges if proved, may lead to the guilty judge's dismissal
from service because financial fraud or providing forged certificates is a very
serious crime," the source pointed out.

The Delhi government had extended a similar scheme
for its bureaucracy. City bureaucrats were empowered to buy computers and
related equipment out of the sum allocated.

`Copy
cat' judges suspended by HC

Five
judges belonging to the state's subordinate judiciary were suspended by the AP
High Court on Wednesday for allegedly copying while writing their LLM
examinations at the Arts College of Kakatiya University in Warangal on Tuesday.

The judges were doing this course under distance
mode from Kakatiya University as the degree would help them gain some
increments in their careers.

They were allegedly caught red-handed in the act
of copying on Tuesday by the authorities and upon receipt of this information,
the HC suspended them from service pending an inquiry. The HC would soon launch
disciplinary proceedings against all these judicial officers, sources said.

The
carcass of the male deer with a bullet injury was found in Naganapura third
block in the forest range, according to Forest Department sources.

They
said the Forest staff saw the accused in the forest range during routine
patrolling early on Friday and took them into their custody. They later combed
the area and found the deer carcass. Senior Forest officers rushed to the spot
on getting the information and conducted investigation.

“The
deer carcass had entry and exit bullet wound. The post-mortem was performed and
the viscera samples have been preserved,” the sources said. A case under the
Wildlife Protection Act, 1972, has been booked against the accused.

The
names of other accused were given as Manjaiah, Raghu, Hanif, Atiq and Farid.

“A
.303 service rifle and a multi-utility vehicle used for committing the alleged
offence have been seized from the accused,” the sources said. Repeated attempts
to contact the Forest officers investigating the case went in a vain.

When
contacted, D. Rajkumar, Honorary Wildlife Warden, Mysore district confirmed
that six persons, including Mr. Dharmesh, were arrested on charges of alleged
killing of deer. “The deer was found hunted with a service rifle,” he said.

Raid on bus:
Six police officers charged with dacoity

The Criminal Investigation
Department (CID) has chargesheeted six police officials and some other private
persons in the infamous inter-State dacoity case of Rs 2.27 crore from a
Kerala-bound bus in Yelwala police station limits in Mysore in January this
year. The chargesheet was submitted in the jurisdictional court in Mysore after
the Department obtained government permission to prosecute the accused police
officials – the then sub inspector C.D. Jagadish, four constables – Satish,
Manohar, Ravi and Latif of Mysore South police station and Prakash and the
gunman of the then Southern range Inspector General of Police Ramchandra Rao
under Sections 395 (dacoity) and 120A (criminal conspiracy) of the Indian Penal
Code.

Rao, who was transferred
after he came under scanner for his alleged involvement in the crime, does not
figure in the chargesheet. “There is no legal admissible evidence against the
then IGP or the then deputy superintendent of Police (Mysore rural) Srihari
Baragur. The investigation is however on and it will be early to come to any
conclusion,” said an official source. He added that it is a complex case because
there are no independent witnesses.

A Kerala-bound bus
carrying about Rs 2.27 crore of four jewelers was ‘raided’ by the police in
Yelawala police station limits in Mysore on January 4, who seized six bags of
cash from inside the bus and arrested the driver and the cleaner of the bus for
“illegal” transportation of cash.

The police showed a
recovery of Rs. 20 lakh, but the Kerala jewelers told their Home Minister that
the amount was around Rs. 2.27 crore. “There is no clinching evidence on the
exact amount, which was reportedly being transported in the bus. We can only
surmise from the statements of the victims and the accused,” added the officer.

Rs 2.26-crore theft by cop: IGP, DySP under scanner

CID
focuses on duo after gunman, informant confesses

The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of
Karnataka Police is thoroughly probing the alleged roles of K Ramachandra Rao,
Inspector General of Police (southern range) and Srihari Baragur, Deputy Superintendent
of Police (Mysore rural), in the sensational Rs 2.26-crore robbery that took
place on a Kerala-bound bus at Yelawala, Mysore, on January 4 this year. The
needle of suspicion pointed strongly towards the duo following a confession by
Rao's gunman, Prakash, who was arrested by the CID on Tuesday along with three
informants.

Statements made by the arrested gunman and the
informants in their confessions indicate that the plundered loot was shared
between the IGP and DySP. According to highly placed sources, Prakash and one
of the three informants, gave minute-by-minute accounts to the CID sleuths
about the robbery that occurred two months ago.

"We have recorded their confession
statements. Before laying our hands on the IGP and DySP, we need to collect
further corroborative evidence. At this juncture, we can neither rule out their
involvement nor give them a clean chit," a top-ranking CID official, who
is part of the investigating team, told Bangalore Mirror.

However, when BM spoke to IGP K Ramachandra Rao,
he denied all the allegations. "I am not aware of what Prakash has said in
his statements to the police. He is in the CID's custody, and they are
conducting a detailed probe. Let them come out with the truth," he said.

METICULOUSLY EXECUTED

The meticulously executed robbery unfolded on the
night of January 4, as a group of policemen led by Mysore South SI, C D
Jagadish, stopped a bus that was en route to Kerala from Bangalore, near
Yelawala on the Mysore-Hunsur state highway. They later diverted the bus to a
road near Yelawala police station and took out six bags containing hard cash
from its luggage compartment. The driver and cleaners of the bus were taken
into custody and a case slapped against them for ferrying large amounts of cash
illegally. But the cops showed a recovery amount of a mere Rs 20 lakh, whereas
the actual amount was Rs 2.26 crore.

The cash belonged to four Kerala-based jewellers
who had reportedly selected the bus to transport it from Bangalore to Kerala.
It is alleged that they had taken the owner and the driver of the bus into
confidence in order to ferry the cash.

The jewellers, to whom the cash belonged, got the
shock of their lives when they found out that the Yelawala police had stopped
the bus and booked a case against the driver and cleaners, showing a paltry sum
of Rs 20 lakh as recovery.

Upon making enquiries, they learnt that the
remaining Rs 2.06 crore had been pocketed by the policemen themselves. The
agitated jewellers proceeded to get in touch with Kerala Home Minister Ramesh
Chennithala, who personally knows Karnataka Home Minister K J George.
Chennithala brought the matter to the notice of George, who was reportedly
infuriated with what had happened. He immediately informed Chief Minister
Siddaramaiah — who hails from Mysore — of the incident.

ENRAGED CM SUMMONS DGP

An enraged Siddaramaiah and George are then said
to have summoned State Police Chief Lalrokhuma Pachau and asked him to get the
matter examined. Pachau got in touch with IGP Rao, and subsequently, a case was
taken up. But the top brass smelled a rat during the investigation, and a CID
investigation was ordered.

The CID sleuths conducted a methodical
investigation for a month before laying their hands on the IGP's gunman,
Prakash, and his gang of informants. Investigation by the CID also revealed
that Prakash resorted to these kinds of crimes involving Kerala jewellers
regularly over the past two years. He had allegedly taken the help of DySP
Srihari Baragur, and other policemen, to conduct false raids and clean out
cash. In the past, the gang had looted small amounts running into a few lakh.
But since the amount involved now was a staggering Rs 2.26 crore, the jewellers
mustered the courage to lodge a complaint.

"The crime does not stop with the gunman. It
appears that they got support from higher-ups. It is here we are examining the
involvement (if any) of Prakash's boss Rao, DySP Baragur, and other
seniors," the officer added. After the matter reached the CM's table, the
culprits tried to reach a compromise with the jewellers by offering to return the
money. This, however, failed to go through because some of the policemen had
taken large amounts of cash with them, and had subsequently gone absconding,
said the CID police. The absconding policemen, four in number, are not be
confused with the three informants.

Additional Director General of Police (CID) P K
Garg said, "The IGP's gunman, Prakash, was arrested two days ago. So far,
we have arrested four persons whom we are questioning and whose statements we
are recording. The money is yet to be recovered. We believe that the cash is
with the absconding policemen, and we have laid a manhunt for the four
policemen, whose names and ranks I cannot reveal."

According to sources, Prakash and his gang shared
the booty among themselves, the informants, and senior police officers. The
informants said they got around Rs 20 lakh as their cut, but claimed the rest
is with policemen of different ranks.